Good luck raccoon

Back on my usual form this month and dashing around on the last day to get this cute little raccoon all coloured up and on a card in time to submit it to Gerda Steiner’s progressive challenge for October.

In my defence (slightly), I did have to get a birthday card for my mum finished and other, non-crafty, things have been distracting me as well — I’ve been trying to find a balance of using craftiness to distract me from the real world stuff that is stopping me focus on the crafty stuff…

Anyway… raccoon holding a blank sign. That was the challenge for October. I didn’t have any particularly clever ideas for what to do with him, so I decided I’d challenge myself to do a bit of no-line colouring for a change. It’s a technique I find a bit intimidating as it’s one of the few things that has ended up with me dropping things in the bin and pretending they never existed. Luckily, it worked nicely this time.

I still wasn’t sure what sentiment I wanted to use, so I just flicked through my stamp sets until I found something that would fit (though I did end up cutting the good luck in half so I could stamp it on two lines).

I die-cut the finished colouring and then faffed around with some ribbons and sequins and a couple of shamrocks (from the same set as the sentiment) until I had a layout I was happy with. The larger of the two shamrocks is a bit excessively shiny — my Wink of Stella decided to bloop over it!

Challenges:

• Gerda Steiner Designs progressive challenge – October

Supplies:

• stamps:
  Lawn Fawn – my lucky charm
• digital stamps:
  Gerda Steiner Designs – raccoon
• dies:
  Lawn Fawn – stitched circles
• inks:
  Ranger – archival – potting soil
• Copic markers:
  raccoon – W0, W1, W3, W4, W5, W6, W7, W8, W10
  stump top – E41, E42, E43, E44
  bark – E43, E44, E47, E49
  sign – E51, E53, E55, E57
  grass – YG63 (base), YG17, YG67, BG96 (shadow)
  sky – BG0000, BG000
  shamrock – YG17, YG67, BG96
• embellishments:
  Doodlebug – sequins – limeade
  green ribbon
  Wink of Stella – clear
• paper and card:
  Neenah solar white 216gsm
  Hunkydory Adorable Scorable – pearly shimmer
• miscellaneous:
  fun foam